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English
Etymology
From membrane + -iform.
Adjective
membraniform (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a membrane; resembling a membrane.
1842, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics:"We provoke cough," says Schwilgué, "to favour the expulsion of foreign bodies introduced from without into the aërian tube, and especially of liquids; we have recourse to it to favour the expectoration of mucus, of membraniform concretions, and of pus, which have accumulated in the aërian passages, whenever the local irritation is sufficiently great."